Name: John Gabriel C.

Diuyan Section: GED101-

C1

Module 1 Paper

I learned a lot from Module 1; it taught me

many ways to help me understand how I
should see myself. My illustration of an
empty glass represents the many factors that
helped me learn and discover more about
myself. I had a realization that I may be just
like an empty glass in accepting ideas on how
to view myself. I was enabled to have a better
mindset that applied to how I was filled with
all of the ideas and teachings from the
module. An empty glass is transparent,
reflective, and is flexible, for it can be filled
with all sorts of liquid. I drew the empty glass
for how these factors help describe myself.
Transparency is one of the many factors that
help shape me, for I believe that having
nothing to hide from others helps in inviting
trust from them. With this, I can establish myself as a credible and honest person. From the
module, I understood that being transparent enables the self to be available and understand
people’s concerns and fears. I was able to gain an entirely new understanding of myself and
others through the module because I believe that having a course that allows me to discover
and understand the self and how it affects others made me realize that I am more than who I
think I am. I am flexible given how I could soak up the life teachings from the lectures and apply
them to correcting what is wrong with myself and adjusting myself as I improve and be better
as a person.
To understand me completely, I imbibed myself with the concept of both Rationalism and
Platonism. Rationalism helps me whenever I am studying a topic unfamiliar to me, and it helps
me understand that I need to study to gain knowledge about things that I have no
understanding of. Rationalism made me realize that I need to have research of something
before believing something from it or using it for facts and knowledge. On the contrary, the
concept of Platonism is what I use often. Platonism is the ideology that I have a reflection on
because of my faith as a Catholic. I believe in God, and I understand the idea that all knowledge
leads to Him, and if my heart is deemed pure, I may someday gain his love and trust. In applying
the concept of Platonism in real life, I can move forward and believe that God is always here to
help guide me to do good and move towards the right path.
The main scientific view that I have imbibed myself with is behaviorism. I believe I would have a
better time analyzing the people around me by utilizing this scientific view. By understanding
people’s behaviors, I would correctly choose the types of people to choose as my peers. Using
behaviorism in selecting the people to surround me has given me many fruitful results. It
helped me in knowing who to choose to be my friends.
Not all people will treat us the way we treat them, and in using the idea of behaviorism, we
would be able to know who will and who won’t.
I gained a lot of new ideas and knowledge from the first module of GED101; it helped me
realize many things about myself as I learn more about my own identity. I learned to be more
considerate of what I am feeling, precisely my emotions. I realized that we must not let our
moods affect other people. If I am having a bad day, it does not mean that other people
deserve to have a bad day too. The module taught me to be aware and respect other people’s
feelings and not let what I am feeling affect them. Another significant learning that I had from
the module is that our behaviors are the reflection of ourselves. The module made me
understand that the behaviors we show are the actions that generate from our thoughts, that
we behave in a certain way because of how our ideas persuade us that it is the best decision
that we can make. The module made me realize that the way we think about something will
affect how we feel about it. Lastly, the third thing that I have learned from the first module is
that we are who we are right now because of how we are raised. The module made me
understand that we are a product of the Nurture given by our parents. The way we were raised
helped shape who we are right now and who we would become in the future. I side with
Nurture on its debate against Nature because I believe that the care and encouragement given
to me by my parents helped me to become who I am supposed to be.
The module helped me understand more of myself. It helped me gain knowledge that I did not
know before; it also provided me with insights about beliefs and theories that describe what I
feel towards myself and others. And as I keep in check the many things I have learned; I could
become better as a person as I understand myself.